[1]One of the mandatory requirements of being qualified to be one’s best friend, is to possess the information or proof, such as photos or videos, that can embarrass your friend.
And we aren’t talking about information that’s forgivable if shared, but information that is good enough for extortion and blackmail. That kind of stuff hardly ever comes out, unless of course, as a massive trend on Twitter, a million other people are willing to share embarrassing photos and videos of their best friends.
A few days ago, when a few high school girls started sharing embarrassing photos of one another, they added the hashtag #EmbarassYourBestFriend (yes, embarass with just one ‘r’), to the tweets.
What they thought would be just another normal hastag that people would forget easily took off within 24 hours, when thousands of Twitter users began tweeting the hilariously embarrassing photos or videos they had of their best friends.
Does that mean their best friends kept quiet? Well, obviously no. So they retaliated, causing a flurry of embarrassing pictures splashed all over the Net. According to some data websites, over the last four days, there have been over a million tweets with the hashtag attached to them.
Among the celebrities who joined in the fun was David Schwimmer, who played the role of Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends, who tweeted an embarrassing collage of the Friends cast in their earlier days. Lucky for them, they were not so terrible, unlike some other photos, which were much worse.
With the advent of social networking websites and ‘instant’ news, this level of public embarrassment, which normally would be subjected to a closed few, can be witnessed by a million people or more and has the potential to go viral within a matter of hours.
This means that one should really think twice before provoking those with the most dirt on you, a.k.a your best friends, for they might share it with the world.
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